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elections can want save haiti, but as i said then and again tonight, the failure to hold elections will doom haiti to permanent failed state status. elections which were due in november of 2011 for the third of the country's senate for all of its 140 mayoral positions in the country and local assemblies has not been held. without the elections, unfortunately, successful development is at risk, and, in fact, will not take place because in the absence of decent government, legitimate government, and in the absence of the rule of law, haiti will not be able to maintain international support, and it will not be able to pursue the transformation that was called for after the devastating earthquake that occurred three years ago. even today, three years after the earthquake, 300,000 continue to be living in displaced camps around the capitol city. over the course of the last year, a significant number of those displaced persons have enforcibly been evicted from those camps. although the government initially carried out several successful efforts to move people from displaced camps to some orga
elections can want save haiti, but as i said then and again tonight, the failure to hold elections will doom haiti to permanent failed state status. elections which were due in november of 2011 for the third of the country's senate for all of its 140 mayoral positions in the country and local assemblies has not been held. without the elections, unfortunately, successful development is at risk, and, in fact, will not take place because in the absence of decent government, legitimate government,...
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elections were great, but the afghans were the one who found it. i say that as an international observer myself. the afghans found it. but now it is crucial that those in organizations stay independent. trying to support afghans in parliament parliament and elsewhere who want to have a say. i don't want to suggest that hominid karzai's only motive would be unfortunate, but i think that the democracy needs the constitution of afghanistan, which is partially are doing, as you know, putting too much in the hands of the president in general. it is unbelievable. with all due respect, all the americans have done great work and we botched it. that constitution includes how we can amend it. these particular commissions need to be populated by people who are seen as representing all of afghanistan and not one particular interest. allegations of impropriety, but they have been investigated, not just president hamid karzai, but those are the kind of things that we have to open some in the next year. we need to avoid talking ourselves out of our own gain power
elections were great, but the afghans were the one who found it. i say that as an international observer myself. the afghans found it. but now it is crucial that those in organizations stay independent. trying to support afghans in parliament parliament and elsewhere who want to have a say. i don't want to suggest that hominid karzai's only motive would be unfortunate, but i think that the democracy needs the constitution of afghanistan, which is partially are doing, as you know, putting too...
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, the impending election was a postponing of the election and the problems surrounding the election and the imf loans are related. and so at least one of the arguments that have been made by the fund and i don't mean the only argument, is that they cannot in good faith commit to an agreement or has egypt commit to an agreement or have morsi commit to an agreement that does not have rod-based consensus meaning it is not approved by a legitimately elected parliament and that until that transpires, they are not going to you know, get to the $4.8 billion. there is much more going on than that. that is certainly one aspect of it and the other aspect and this is maybe four many of you to think about what the role should be is that it is not the case and it does not been the case in the past that the international community as regional players will allow egypt to fail. that is not happened in the last 30 or 40 years when egypt made based crisis at the end of the 1980s in which there were also running out of foreign reserves and couldn't pay off loans to the international paris club in the unit
, the impending election was a postponing of the election and the problems surrounding the election and the imf loans are related. and so at least one of the arguments that have been made by the fund and i don't mean the only argument, is that they cannot in good faith commit to an agreement or has egypt commit to an agreement or have morsi commit to an agreement that does not have rod-based consensus meaning it is not approved by a legitimately elected parliament and that until that...
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we want to win elections. we also want to do it without compromising our principles, and that's what we're committed to. >> questioner asks, do you endorse splitting electoral votes in so-called blue states, limiting voting days and/or requiring proof of citizenship or photo id for voter registration? >> well, i do support voter id. i do support that. i think it's pretty reasonable, and it's an 80% issue that, you know what? you ought to, you know, you -- i can't even say that anymore. i used to say when you rent the movie from blockbuster, but i guess you don't do that anymore. you need an id for anything. you go into any building in manhattan, you need an id. proving who you are, where you live is not too much to ask. is that's number one. but, um, you know, i think that that's important. but i also think that it protects everyone's 14th amendment right to one person, one vote. what was the rest of that question? oh, splitting the electoral -- i knew there was something else in there. you know, look, i think
we want to win elections. we also want to do it without compromising our principles, and that's what we're committed to. >> questioner asks, do you endorse splitting electoral votes in so-called blue states, limiting voting days and/or requiring proof of citizenship or photo id for voter registration? >> well, i do support voter id. i do support that. i think it's pretty reasonable, and it's an 80% issue that, you know what? you ought to, you know, you -- i can't even say that...
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not just one election. and i think we need to focus more on that and more on building this kind of fabric of democracy in the region and less on feeling we need to endorse whoever wins an election. and finally, look, we need to be prepared to be judged on our actions and not just on our words. so just giving another high profile speech is not going to cut it. people want to see action especially pause there's a view that the 2009 speech, frankly, wasn't really carried out, didn't really translate into policy. and i think the places where we'll be most judged on our actions will be syria and iran. and i think in syria, look, we need to stake out a strategy, we need to put resources behind it, we need to build a coalition around it. i think it's very damaging, this idea that the united states is pass i or unable to -- passive or unable to accomplish its objectives when people see syria as the most immediate national security priority for the united states and our allies. when it comes to rapp, i think we need
not just one election. and i think we need to focus more on that and more on building this kind of fabric of democracy in the region and less on feeling we need to endorse whoever wins an election. and finally, look, we need to be prepared to be judged on our actions and not just on our words. so just giving another high profile speech is not going to cut it. people want to see action especially pause there's a view that the 2009 speech, frankly, wasn't really carried out, didn't really...
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he just won re-election, okay? and he had a democratic senate. now, he didn't own the capitol because republicans had the house of representatives, but the next thing was the fiscal cliff. and the fiscal cliff was an automatic $5 trillion tax increase unless the president, the house and the senate passed an alternative bill. so he had all the cards. he had all the power. if he said i want to keep one trillion of that five, i want to keep two, the republicans and democrats in the house and senate couldn't stop that. the republicans in the house several times said we vote to extend everything, and the democrats in the senate said, well, we don't, so it's going to be a $5 trillion tax increase. and the president said, okay, i want $600 billion. he took his pound of flesh, he got that. and then he made all of 85% all the remaining bush tax cuts permanent. so 85% of the money that he could have taken off the table and given to his friends remained with the american people. and as a result, he now gave up all of his bargaining position. what if instead
he just won re-election, okay? and he had a democratic senate. now, he didn't own the capitol because republicans had the house of representatives, but the next thing was the fiscal cliff. and the fiscal cliff was an automatic $5 trillion tax increase unless the president, the house and the senate passed an alternative bill. so he had all the cards. he had all the power. if he said i want to keep one trillion of that five, i want to keep two, the republicans and democrats in the house and...
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i was first elected to be a county commissioner in lancaster county. after that, i went to the lincoln city council where i served for a couple of years, and primarily because i had concerns about where the budget of the city of lincoln was headed, i ran for mayor of lincoln and i served two terms as mayor of the city of lincoln in a strong mayor form of government. from there, i went to the governor's office of the state of nebraska, and from there i went to become secretary of agriculture in the bush administration, and four years ago, i joined the united states senate after running for election. i have dealt with government budgets all of my career. i worked on my first budget when i was 32 years old. and the one thing i knew was that it either balanced or it wasn't going to work. i have submitted budgets over and over again through those years all balanced, but let me focus a little more intently on the state of nebraska and my time as governor there. mr. president, nebraskans have a very practical approach to spending money, very straightforward.
i was first elected to be a county commissioner in lancaster county. after that, i went to the lincoln city council where i served for a couple of years, and primarily because i had concerns about where the budget of the city of lincoln was headed, i ran for mayor of lincoln and i served two terms as mayor of the city of lincoln in a strong mayor form of government. from there, i went to the governor's office of the state of nebraska, and from there i went to become secretary of agriculture in...
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he says, this is the issue of this election. whether we believe and a capacity for self-governance or whether we abandon the american revolution and contrast a little intellectual elite in a far distant capital can plan our lives. for us, better than we can plan them ourselves. the best single book on moving out of bureaucracy into a to tally and society were you this as it are empowered to solve your own problems, this does a lot about where we are in the republican party. the best single book is the former mayor of san francisco, lieutenant governor of california, it's called citizen bill, and every single conservative in this country should read it because it is a practical textbook on all the opportunities in the information age to get rid of government and replace it with citizen activism exactly in the tocqueville the model. but it embraces the new world and the pioneers were great future that is entrapped in the past. reagan came to cpac march 1, 1975, probably most important cpac speech in his. he said quote our people l
he says, this is the issue of this election. whether we believe and a capacity for self-governance or whether we abandon the american revolution and contrast a little intellectual elite in a far distant capital can plan our lives. for us, better than we can plan them ourselves. the best single book on moving out of bureaucracy into a to tally and society were you this as it are empowered to solve your own problems, this does a lot about where we are in the republican party. the best single book...
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their elected first of all, and a lot of buzzwords. rhetoric will be passed against reality. every senator will have to stand and be counted. i encourage the meh american pee to tune in to c-span. do we balance the federal budget? do we reform the bureaucracy or just keep spending more money? do we keep sending even more money to washington through more taxes? do we embrace our great constitutional heritage of freedom or do we let it slip away? these are questions of our time. the budgets reflect where we stand on these issues. i would say our democratic budget represents more government, less commitment to efficiency, not the kind of change and progress we need. we need to have a budget that balances, that's oriented toward growth and prosperity. i look forward to the debate today. it'll be an interesting challenge throughout the next couple of days. i really would say, i've been very passionate here today, very frank here today. but i know we've got great colleagues on both sides of the aisle. and in our debate in the budget committe
their elected first of all, and a lot of buzzwords. rhetoric will be passed against reality. every senator will have to stand and be counted. i encourage the meh american pee to tune in to c-span. do we balance the federal budget? do we reform the bureaucracy or just keep spending more money? do we keep sending even more money to washington through more taxes? do we embrace our great constitutional heritage of freedom or do we let it slip away? these are questions of our time. the budgets...
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we teach at the kennedy school, for example, we teach a newly elected members of congress program every two years. this year i taught, i think we had 56 newly elected members, and in addition to teaching them budgeting and event during the day, i mean, i had a whole group of them that met with him privately just to go through some of these issues. a lot of interest in reforming the veterans disability system. a lot of interest in what's going on in the tricare and pentagon health care system. a lot of interest in trying to get information. i have a lot of staffers on the hill who are contacting me and my students all the time trying to get information. i have not seen that translate into somebody who would fall on their sword, so speak, to try and lead a complete transformation in how we think about war costs, and you know i don't see anyone, unicode is sort of about to take that charge. i think a number of those who have looked at it carefully, for example, bob who was the head of the house veterans committee, who is very much embraced my reform ideas for the disability system. he left
we teach at the kennedy school, for example, we teach a newly elected members of congress program every two years. this year i taught, i think we had 56 newly elected members, and in addition to teaching them budgeting and event during the day, i mean, i had a whole group of them that met with him privately just to go through some of these issues. a lot of interest in reforming the veterans disability system. a lot of interest in what's going on in the tricare and pentagon health care system. a...
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the american people elected a divided government. it was not a mandate for either party. it's a challenge and a challenge that all of us need to accept. so let us act now. let us summon the courage to stand up and work together on a truly balanced plan, not one that calls forever more spending and ever higher taxes but one that puts in place real reforms. the first step is passing a credible budget. sadly, in my opinion, this budget doesn't match the need. and so hopefully we can make the adjustments to this to put us on that path to prosperity, and with that, mr. president, i yield the floor. mrs. murray: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: thank you, mr. president. i yield myself ten minutes off the resolution. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. murray: mr. president, we are having this debate today in hopes of ultimately reaching a fair and bipartisan budget deal, and we all know that's not going to be easy, so the least we can do is get our facts straight. it's kind of disappointing to see that rather than engagi
the american people elected a divided government. it was not a mandate for either party. it's a challenge and a challenge that all of us need to accept. so let us act now. let us summon the courage to stand up and work together on a truly balanced plan, not one that calls forever more spending and ever higher taxes but one that puts in place real reforms. the first step is passing a credible budget. sadly, in my opinion, this budget doesn't match the need. and so hopefully we can make the...
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our budget is the sort of balanced plan that was on the ballot, that was a critical part of the 2012 election process and that i frankly think the american people have broadly embraced. we have put forward a budget that meets the values agenda that our democratic budget committee stands behind. to invest in critical areas of our economy, whether infrastructure, education or r&d, to help lift the private sector and help grow jobs again, to keep our most vital commitments to seniors and to veterans and to those most at risk in our society while still making responsible, steady progress towards reducing our crippling deficit and debt. we get the deficit down to less than 3% of g.d.p. at the end of the ten-year period, we stabilize our publicly held debt at 70% of g.d.p. these are the targets broadly agreed on by every major bipartisan group that has looked at the challenges facing the united states, our economy and our budget. i remind you that the bowles-simpson commission, a bipartisan commission, came up with a rough target of $4 trillion in savings over a decade. this plan, this budget resol
our budget is the sort of balanced plan that was on the ballot, that was a critical part of the 2012 election process and that i frankly think the american people have broadly embraced. we have put forward a budget that meets the values agenda that our democratic budget committee stands behind. to invest in critical areas of our economy, whether infrastructure, education or r&d, to help lift the private sector and help grow jobs again, to keep our most vital commitments to seniors and to...
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that's not what people elected us to do. we've been in an empty chamber here basically talking to no one or, at best, to each other and not moving forward with funding this government for the next six months in this fiscal year. not -- not a small matter. so we're all ready to go forward but we would like to have the right, particularly as a minority, to offer our amendments to this resolution which provides for this funding. now, i don't know how i'm going to vote on all these because some of them, i'm not even sure what would be brought forward. but we're here to evaluate those, to make our best judgment, to vote our "yea" or "nay," to be able to explain to the people back home why we voted that way, and then they get to decide whether they want send us back for another term or whether they think we did the right thing. apparently the majority leader has some problems with some of these proposed amendments. maybe he doesn't want his members to have to vote on it because it's a -- it's a tough vote politically. well, what a
that's not what people elected us to do. we've been in an empty chamber here basically talking to no one or, at best, to each other and not moving forward with funding this government for the next six months in this fiscal year. not -- not a small matter. so we're all ready to go forward but we would like to have the right, particularly as a minority, to offer our amendments to this resolution which provides for this funding. now, i don't know how i'm going to vote on all these because some of...
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i was elected chairman of the d.c. republican party as an openly gay man, and was original chairman of law cabin republicans. as a gay man, i personally support marriage equality because it's the right thing to do. i have many friends have been in committed relationships for many years have gotten married. each of these couples recognizes the responsibility, that come along with marriage. it's time for them to also receive the rights that come with marriage for everybody else. i want to thank senator rob portman, a fellow cincinnati in, a fellow cincinnati and a longtime friend of mine, for his courage and supported not only his son, but coming out in support of gay marriage. it's the first republican senator in the united states currently, and it won't be the last. [cheers and applause] so i grew up in ohio, as i said. ohio as -- when i was going up respected people. theithe respective party and everyone respected people's private lives. that changed but we will change it back. so am honored to be here today, and i re
i was elected chairman of the d.c. republican party as an openly gay man, and was original chairman of law cabin republicans. as a gay man, i personally support marriage equality because it's the right thing to do. i have many friends have been in committed relationships for many years have gotten married. each of these couples recognizes the responsibility, that come along with marriage. it's time for them to also receive the rights that come with marriage for everybody else. i want to thank...
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and this is when we had a much more successful election, the parliamentarian elections and so forth. there was an opportunity, i believe, at that stage to consolidate some gains and to move toward a sustainable political outcome. and we know that some of those efforts failed or weren't sufficient to consolidate those gains. and so the future of iraq is, obviously, very much in question beyond this point, but i think it's very important to understand that these conflicts evolve over time, and we're fighting enemies there who have a say in the future course of events, and we need to talk more about those enemies. what are they trying to achieve, what are their goals, what are their strategies? because then we could inform the public about what the stakes are. but instead we talk about only us, and we talk about only our number of troops and what we did and as if everything we did led to the outcome without any interaction with those against whom we're fighting. >> let's open the conversation now, and -- [laughter] i think what we'll do given the number of hands i see is we'll take two
and this is when we had a much more successful election, the parliamentarian elections and so forth. there was an opportunity, i believe, at that stage to consolidate some gains and to move toward a sustainable political outcome. and we know that some of those efforts failed or weren't sufficient to consolidate those gains. and so the future of iraq is, obviously, very much in question beyond this point, but i think it's very important to understand that these conflicts evolve over time, and...
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s for voting in federal elections. madam president, this is largely provoked by the actions of the obama administration justice department half been fighting states that are trying to institute federal i.d.'s. that is allowed under federal law, and several states are doing that, doing it properly -- texas, south carolina -- but this justice department is trying to shut that down, even though it's allowed by federal law. interesting, that assault on states trying to do their job, trying do things properly, has been made by the head of the civil rights division at justice, thomas perez, who is now nominated for labor secretary. this amendment and this proposal would clarify it by actually requiring photo i.d.'s for voting in federal elections. we require photo i.d.'s for traveling at airports. we require photo i.d.'s for going into a conditions. we require photo i.d.'s for a myriad of things, including visiting the white house. surely, it's a very legitimate, simple requirement that doesn't disenfranchise anyone to make
s for voting in federal elections. madam president, this is largely provoked by the actions of the obama administration justice department half been fighting states that are trying to institute federal i.d.'s. that is allowed under federal law, and several states are doing that, doing it properly -- texas, south carolina -- but this justice department is trying to shut that down, even though it's allowed by federal law. interesting, that assault on states trying to do their job, trying do...
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because it's all about the next election. and we've got our eye so far off the ball that we now -- every bill that comes to the floor has to have, essentially, a rules committee of one, which is the majority leader deciding whether or not he wants his members to vote on a bill. that doesn't have anything to connect with the history of the senate. this is no longer the greatest deliberative body in the world, because we don't deliberate, we don't have an open-amendment process. we're too afraid of our own shadows to cast a vote and think we might have to defend it. well, if you can't defend any and every vote in this body, you don't have any business being here. and to stifle debate and to limit amendments in the way that this bill has done certainly won't breed any good will going forward. and certainly doesn't do the due service that american citizens are due. mr. president, i'll now take some time to talk about the various amendments that i've called up. amendment 69 was the physical amendment -- was the first amendment i c
because it's all about the next election. and we've got our eye so far off the ball that we now -- every bill that comes to the floor has to have, essentially, a rules committee of one, which is the majority leader deciding whether or not he wants his members to vote on a bill. that doesn't have anything to connect with the history of the senate. this is no longer the greatest deliberative body in the world, because we don't deliberate, we don't have an open-amendment process. we're too afraid...
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they had a little problem because the american people had just whacked the big spenders in the 2000 election. so what did they decide to do? they just said it would balance. and he said, we're spending only money that we have. we've got a budget that doesn't add to the debt. we've got a budget that begins to pay down the debt. all three of those things were utterly false. the lowest single deficit in his own numbers he submitted to us was $600 billion. that was the least year that he had in his entire 10-year budget of what the deficit would be that year, $600 billion deficit, yet he said we have a budget that pays down the debt, we have a budget that spends only money that we have and a budget that you can be proud of. and that's what we've had here. i hate to say it. our colleagues have produced a budget that utterly fails to alter the debt course we're on. it raise taxes but it doesn't use the taxes to reduce the deficit. it uses the taxes to fund new spending. it really does. i thank the chair. so that's the concern we have today, madam president. and we'll head now into the votes. i thi
they had a little problem because the american people had just whacked the big spenders in the 2000 election. so what did they decide to do? they just said it would balance. and he said, we're spending only money that we have. we've got a budget that doesn't add to the debt. we've got a budget that begins to pay down the debt. all three of those things were utterly false. the lowest single deficit in his own numbers he submitted to us was $600 billion. that was the least year that he had in his...